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I think when I calculated everything it was clear that Sniper Rifle, Ignite, and Char were the three best ST attacks and Strangler might have been just a hair better than Slug as a 4th attack. But Slug is basically required anyway and could do about the same job as Strangler while still getting some kind of set bonus. Unless your primary has no good ST options (like Electric where I really only want to use Zapp), I can’t imagine where I’d want any of the secondary holds besides Choking Powder. And obviously Freezing Touch / Seismic Smash if counting those. They often have hefty animations and at least one melee power further down the set does way more DPA.

Procs bypass the damage cap so even with a couple of kins around one build style is doing more damage regardless. Does my character’s performance matter in the slightest on an 8 man team if I’m not speedrunning or doing a 4 star? No, probably not - agree with you there.

There will not and cannot be any Kheldian buffs until the animation cancelling exploit is nuked from orbit. Based on my own observations of how willing the devs are to reign in this set of cheat codes, we can expect the patch in approximately 20 years.

Well technically the third power I meant was the level 1 power. I skipped Strangler for low DPA.

Not a lot of fun to me to have substandard damage and mobility. No shade on people who like that.

Your enhancement values are spread so thin. I’d ditch the proc and add a Acc/Dam/End/Rech. And yeah nice try on Bonus 2 😆

Can’t agree that help is needed across the board. We currently don’t need to buff Cold, Kin, or Nature under any circumstances, for instance. But yeah, we all know Empathy has issues. Dark Miasma animations are long across the board. Down to address this in a targeted manner, sure.

Short of very niche debuffs like Poison’s effects on healing or Acid Arrow’s debuff resistance debuff…. Yes.

I think there’s some kind of Paragon City variant of Godwin’s Law where the discussion is pretty much over once a poster compares Speed Boost to rape.

I looked at the numbers and it appears that Tar Patch has a higher duration and the same uptime ratio as Freezing Rain and Sleet. And Tide Pool isn’t comparable at all.

The only reasons to play a Brute over another superior melee AT are: (1) To play the tankiest type of /Energy Aura available (2) To play the tankiest type of /Regeneration available (3) To play the scrappiest type of Super Strength/ available If none of these three options describes your primary intent, play a different melee AT.

Lol, no, keeping fire swords and popping purples and spamming Healing Flames is not the way to do it. Your AFK build should be surviving everything without heals no sweat. Your active farming build should be easily surviving still with just the occasional heal. In both cases there is zero reason to carry anything but reds if you know what you’re doing. No serious farmer is popping purples. Find another map, OP. Happy to answer any questions.

Rudra becomes Shadow Rudra when threatened with accelerated XP gain. Do not piss him off.

Did you make sure you’re using a map that doesn’t have Fire Swords? Is this AFK farming or active farming? If AFK you need a little more mitigation than you used to for the same results. If you address these two issues though farming is not any harder than it used to be.

Plant has a great sustain toggle and a great build up. My AR/Plant only picked 3 secondary powers and I’m happy with it.

I mean I understand the point of demanding a +4x8 radio race instead of providing a screenshot. A screenshot would immediately tell us if Mez is being truthful or not. In a +4x8 radio race, Mez is banking on his higher defenses actually saving him more time than the time the corresponding offense loss in his build costs him. And he might be right - too bad that has nothing to do with his claim. He’s hoping that he can take the optics of winning a race in something that isn’t designed to test raw offensive capability and then claim he was right all along even though he hasn’t proven the actual claim he made. It’s cynical but it makes sense.

Radios do not address my point. A build screenshot would address my point. This is like telling me to do a pylon test to prove that my character is survivable. It doesn’t comport with reason. If you refuse to provide evidence, you are kinda just admitting to me that you are full of shit. The stubborn, disingenuous, and completely illogical gaslighting is really unfortunate. Didn’t know Mez was like that tbh. I think you and I both know that you won’t provide a screenshot because the build you’ve described does not and cannot exist.

You are free to post the screenshot of the real deal any time now. Not that any of us doubt that your perfect-at-everything unicorn build exists just because you flat out refuse to provide evidence or anything like that. Not like every post you make providing *everything and the kitchen sink besides evidence* further undermines your claim or anything like that. I get that you know you made a completely false claim and are afraid to admit it, but this is ridiculous af.

I completely agree. Build screenshot with both soft capped defense and optimized offenses or gtfo.

You claimed that you can make room for substantial defense bonuses without making any offensive sacrifices whatsoever and it’s obvious to everyone else here that it’s a completely bullshit claim. The fact that you think +4x8 radios are even relevant to measuring pure offensive capability makes me revisit my past assumption that Mez is an intelligent player/person. Cut the bad faith “sky is red” trash, jesus.

You said you had Dark Obliteration, Soul Drain, Stealth, etc. So you’re proving your build’s offensive capabilities by… switching builds? Christ I didn’t think Mez was this obtuse. Let’s roll with it though: since defense doesn’t require sacrifices, I’m sure your pylon build with Enflame has 45% defense, right?

I am looking at the thread now and not seeing where you posted a build screenshot….

A screenshot would have been a relevant retort to my argument. Radios have nothing to do with it. I’m not sure if you’re being disingenuous to save face or if you just genuinely don’t understand the concept of opportunity costs. It’s weird.

Refusing to engage with a point at all is one way to concede I guess.

You are sacrificing things you just won’t show us what